Food security in India

PACS newsroom - food security and poverty

14 September 2010

An opinion piece by P.Sainath in The Hindu on the Government of India's grain storage policy.

An extract from The Hindu

'How right you are, Dr. Singh When we have policies trample on people's rights, and people go to courts seeking redress, what should the courts do, Prime Minister? Government have money to subsidise the building of new cities, malls and multiplexes. But none for building storage space for the nations food grain.'

Read the full article: The Hindu

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